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Farsala on 09 February 2023
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kazuyamishima said:
Farsala said:

These type of comments about low physical sales for PS5 will probably continue for its entire generation.

Honestly as someone living in Japan right now, it is really hard for scalpers to buy the PS5, because most of the retailers required more hoops to jump through in order to buy one.

One requirement is that you can only buy 1 PS5 from one retailer for lifetime. So if you wanted a PS5 for yourself after selling it overseas, you would have to find another place. Do this 5 or 6 times and you are out of major retailers.

Do you have any idea why the physical PS5 sales are "low" in Japan, digital ratios are higher? Free to play games are the main thing? Japanese gamers only buy the console without games?

The best reason I can give right now, is that a sudden influx of PS5 stock doesn't mean that a sudden influx of old PS5 games would be shipped. Due to low stock the PS5 had limited shelf space in retailers, so it is not like they can suddenly expand that for all the Software released so far. The contracts for all the games shipped so far have already finished I assume.